Blog for those who are interested in Czech genealogy, who have ancestors in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.

Monday, October 31, 2011

History of villages: Introduction

As there are just few official village/town's websites available online, I decided to offer you new "section" of the website. This "section" will be located under "villages" label and will provide you history of different villages. Those villages in which you yourselves are interested. And I need you assistance - I need to know in which villages you would be interested. So, leave me a comment under this post with your tips!
What can you expect in the village history?

shorter or longer history of the village;

information about parish(es) and domain to which the village belonged;

information about population (in the past and today);

maps.

And probably something more, it just depends on sources which are available.

Links to the village/town history if it is available online in English:

Hello again Blanka!!! I always has to thank you about your blog!!!!! please if you could include, I would like to suggest:They are all in the Prerov district:Hranice Lipník nad BečvouLoučkaVeselíčkoStamerice, TupecTýnÚstíThanksChris Gromann

You should NOT have asked for requests. You will be swamped with them! But since you did, here's my list: Moravia, Hodonin district: Zarazice, Znorovy, Liderovice, Veseli nad Moravou. The last town is the largest, and they are all close together. If you know how to find census records or land registries for this area, I'd appreciate mention of that. Many thanks for your work and enthusiasm. I look forward to every new post to see what I can learn.

Thank you so much for everything you are teaching us. I just recently learned that one of my great-great grandfathers came from the village of Nemejice in Bohemia so I would appreciate anything I can learn about that village.

I hope this posts this time - my posts keep disappearing. Sorry if it turns into multiple posts.

I love your blog. Here is my g-grandmother's village, which even though it is only 600 people has a website.

http://www.brezuvky.cz/

It is in Ziln. If you put the pages through google translate, one can get the gist of the text.

I have a few general questions, though. Evidently the village was at one point abandoned in the middle ages due to war and plague. Then, it looks like it was sold to a different nobleman who re-populated it. My question is - how did migration work in those days? Where did these people typically come from? Were they forced to go there from the nobleman's other lands? Did he solicit pioneers? Was it an exciting chance at a new life or a sad life away from your loved ones back in the home village?

Feb. 26, 2012 Blanka, this is wonderful! I've just discovered my first 5 ancestral villages, all in Bohemia. They are Neskaredice/Cirkvice/Kutna Hora, Perstejnice[K-H], Kresetice[K-H],Krchleb[K-H]all Caslov Region and Bojanov/Chrudim/Pardubice Region.Many thanks for thinking of this!

I am interested in learning about a village called Rybná nad Zdobnicí (its German name was Deutsch Rybna) in the Rychnov nad Kněžnou District. It is so small that I haven't been able to learn anything about it. Thank you in advance!

I would love to hear more about Vrbno and Kasejovice, the two villages my grandparents were from. The story goes that after they met in America they realized they grew up fairly close together back in Bohemia. But since the villages did not share a common market they may have never met.

I would like to hear about an area called Milevsko. Not sure if it is a town or a village, but it was listed as the "residence" on my great grandfather's ship crossing record. What I do know is that it is located on the Milevský Potok (Milevsko Stream) about 20 km northwest of the town Tábor and 12 km from the current Orlík Dam area. The family name is Benda, and given the huge number of Benda's located in the Czech Republic, I know finding my Benda's village is likely going to be somewhat of an impossible dream. The time frame would be mid to early 1800's. Thank you so much for setting up this site...it has been incredibly helpful and informative. Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii, USA.

Sadly, my grandmother passed in 1963 and refused to talk about her Czech family origins. Through research, I learned that her parents came in through NYC to Chicago in 1886 from Predni Bohemen or Podebrady/Podebrauz Bohemen (ship manifest). The surnames are CEPEK and SARFARIK.What are these locations - towns, villages, states? Where do I go from here?Thank you for any help.

I am loving your web site/blog. Thanks so much for this information. I still haven't discovered my ancestors exact roots (towns) in Czech. Our data just says Bohemia. They came to Cedar Rapids Iowa around the 1860's early 1870's. One ancestor was Albert Zaruba and he had a wife in Czechoslovakia but she died. He had a surviving son. Then there is his second wife, Barbara Jakovic, who also came from Bohemia and Albert and Barbara had their first child together in 1872 in Iowa. Barbara's last child with her husband Jakovic was born in 1870. We think that Barbara's maiden name was Krumher. So it is a blended family and Jan Jakovic, born in 1870 in Bohemia kept the name Jakovic but his three sisters all took on the name Zaruba; some of them dropping the final 'a'. I still haven't figured out if they met in Czechoslakia or in Iowa. I will definitely let you know if I discover more detail of their beginnings in Bohemia. Ann

Hi Blanka:If you could, would you please do the history of the Village of Myto, where my grandparents were from. I am mostly interested in the occupations in the 1800's. I have a word and don't know what it means - cvokare - cvokar-cvokarsky-cvokar - any ideas?Thank you

I am looking for the census records for the family of Josef Houser from Konesin, Czech Republic, Josef Houser married Franceska Kopulety in 1870, and had 6 children. They came to Howells, Nebraska USA in 1892. Konesin is just west of Trebic. Where do I find census records? Thank you for this site

I have recently found your wonderful blog and am very grateful for all the information and look forward to learning more.Could you please include Tupesy and Hrdejovice in South Bohemia and Krchleb near Nymburk. Thank you

Hello Blanka. We are looking for my husband's family, Kovarik, and have that Franz Kovarik (born around 1850) was from Bolelouc, Moravia. We will be visiting the area in June and would like to know what village that would be so we can do some research in Brno. His wife was Antonia Schuta who was also from that area. Anything you can tell us would be greatly appreciated.tonikovarik@yahoo.com

Hi Toni, you would have to do the research in Olomouc, not Brno archives. The village name is still Bolelouc, it belongs to Olomouc district. Here is the map: http://www.mapy.cz/#x=17.280981&y=49.494519&z=13&l=16

If you want to search registries, the best way is to search them online on website http://matriky.archives.cz

Just curious if you could help with my inquiry. The record I am currently working off of is from the village of Vodokrty. The marriage record translates the groom being from "Brassel unter Paltz." Any idea where this is? There is a Brasy near this region, but not sure if that is Brassel or where the unter Paltz comes into play. The year is 1684. thank you!!

Hm hm, I think it could be "Brassel, Undter Faltz" - some village/town called Brassel (or similar name) in Lower Pfalz or the Palatinate region in Germany - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatinate_%28region%29

Thanks again for your thoughts! Off to Germany I suppose. Any good websites that you can recommend for that region for genealogical research? I've spent the last couple years in the Czech archives, so in a way I'm starting from scratch.